Family Life: Meerkats are social animals and live in a matriachial society. This means that there is a dominant female that leads the group. Meerkats will work as a team to keep eachother safe by guarding and keeping lookout for predators and helping with eachothers young. When a female meerkat has her litter, she has to teach them how to catch food. She will even brink them live insects to that they learns to kill their prey.

*Fun Facts*

Meerkats are able to eat some venomous snakes because thy have become immune to their venom!

Young meerkats are so afraid of a bird that may eat them, that even an airplane will make them run for shelter!